perl DateTime packaging question
Ville Skyttä
ville.skytta at iki.fi
Tue May 27 21:35:52 UTC 2008
On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 04:45:02PM -0400, David Mansfield wrote:
> > In this case, DateTime, DateTime-TimeZone and DateTime-Locale are all
> > part of perl-DateTime, but they are different CPAN 'entities' with
> > different release schedules, tarballs, authors etc.
> >
> > Is this just an issue of packager discretion?
>
> It is, although shipping different packages in one (with different
> release schedules, tarballs, authors etc.) is bad practice. Normally
> this is raised during reviews, but not here.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/167376
Said the submitter:
"This package is a bit odd. To avoid circular dependencies, I've bundled
DateTime, DateTime::Locale, and DateTime::TimeZone."
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